https://mark.lavi.us/tags/pets/ Recent content in Pets on Mark's Blog Hugo en-us This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:03:38 -0500 https://mark.lavi.us/post/learning-alpine-linux-ansible-and-packer/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:37:33 -0600 https://mark.lavi.us/post/learning-alpine-linux-ansible-and-packer/ <p>For my 2020-1 holiday break, I decided my next personal project would be to rebuild my home infrastructure on containers. I&rsquo;d been inspired by a recent discovery of <a href="https://linuxserver.io">LinuxServer.io</a>, where open source projects are built and run as containers. While I have a burning desire to better my Kubernetes practice, not enough of the world delivers software as a Helm chart, so merely running everything as containers would be a good intermediate step. Let me share my first six steps with examples&hellip;</p> https://mark.lavi.us/post/ten_steps_from_pets_to_cattle/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:05:13 -0700 https://mark.lavi.us/post/ten_steps_from_pets_to_cattle/ <p>Why do we need DevOps when IT and Operations succeed in their responsibility for security and uptime, using administrative tools to maintain, backup, patch, and restore those systems achieving a &ldquo;keep the lights on&rdquo; goal? Because the operations domain must be documented, democratized, and distributed to achieve agility so Operations returns to become a business force multiplier. Let me demonstrate that traditional values for long lived infrastructure and their retroactive justification do not apply when progressing to a DevOps mindset.</p>